The Window Man

read moreReplacement windows: Buyer Beware all about buying doubleglazed windows and doors, severa pages! Double glazing and having new replacement windows fitted or a conservatory has a great many hidden aspects which all add up to make it a larger than first realised subject. A lot of people thinking about it have a feeling that there may be a potential 'minefield' out there. DOUBLE GLAZING fitted in replacement windows for insulation & noise reduction:"What is double glazing, and how does it work?" The best way to buy your replacement windows double glazing, and the worst How not be be mugged!

read moreThere is just so much you can learn about wood, that I will merely cover wood, 'soft' and 'hard', in as much as it is relative to it's uses a frame material in our industry. By the way, did you know that 'Balsa-wood' is a hardwood - yes?, but do you know why? So, what is the (scientific) difference between Hardwood and Softwood? I was actually asked this exact question recently in my online double glazing Q & A discussion and so have expended my pages to accommodate most of the questions visitors would like answered woods.

read moreRight, lets get straight down to it. You have nagging thoughts, or have heard stories about a particular company having gone bust, and then started up again under a similar (seems like the same) name. It concerns you that they may have done this before, and could possibly do it again and not honour their guarantee, yet again (and to you this time), and you want to check them out, particularly as you might be tempted to buy from them (and of course their price and the deal is so good). I would want to check them out if I were in your shoes - so how do you do that?

read moreAll that happened is that in our country uPVC changed it's name to PVC-U in the late 1980's to fall in line with our European friends. It seems that they were all calling it call it PVC-U because European languages mostly place the noun (being PVC in this case) before the adjective (U). Poly Vinyl Chloride, which we know as every day 'PVC' is modified, i.e. softened and can then be used in the manufacture of products such as hand bags, sport bags, shoes and fake leather. It is the use of this material which has made us familiar with the abbreviation 'PVC'.

read moreThe vast majority of visitors to my double glazing information website (98.73% to be precise) are outside the UK and indeed also outside of the day to day area in which I work. Double glazing and having double glazed glass in replacement windows gives you insulation. Having double glazed sealed units in replacement windows doors, and conservatories - double glazing -is just like putting on another layer of clothing to keep out the cold. The Window Man - Providing you with information, advice and double glazing quote requests.

read moreThese houses were a little grander, and far more spacious than the earlier '2 up - 2 down', and the times were more affluent. Typical features included a solid 'stock' brick structure, slate tiled roof, more ornament, entrance hall, large room sizes which often had their own fireplace, high ceilings, stone cilled sliding vertical flat and sash bay windows, often a cellar, and piped water - but alas still with no indoor toilet. These were indeed fine and spacious family homes for the 'townies'. Upstairs the windows have been 'modernised' with the fitting of louvers in the top to provide ventilation.

read moreLengths of profile to make windows/doors out of is extruded in a number of shapes to make up a 'system'. System suppliers then supply the suite of extrusions to window and door manufacturers, who cut up the lengths of profile, weld them up and fit the locks etc., that make them into windows/doors. Therefore manufacturers who 'make' their own windows are in fact mostly just 'fabricators' of a system that they buy in. That means that you could easily have two competitors quote you, both of whom 'make' their own windows, offering you exactly the same window/door system, not different 'makes' at all really!

read moreI mainly quote 'air gaps' on this page - referring to the actual gap between the panes of glass. The overall sealed unit thickness will therefore be the air gap plus the thickness of the two panes of glass. Therefore when I say 20mm air gap, (add the 4mm+4mm glass) this would be for a sealed unit with an overall thickness of 28mm, etc. In the first place we had a 6mm air gap, and that was double glazing in it's early days, and thought of as marvelous compared to single glazing. As things advanced a few manufacturers moved up to an 8mm air gap (and the salesman could say ours is better because.).